[Complete Set of First Editions of 'Swallows and Amazons'.]

£19,500 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

very rare first edition set in jackets A rare, complete first edition set in original dust-jackets of Arthur Ransome's classic Swallows and Amazons series. Arthur Ransome (1884 -1967) wrote on many subjects, including reporting to the British Government on the Russian Revolution. However, he is most famous for this series of children's books, which follow a number of resourceful boys and girls as they sail, camp, and have adventures, both real and imaginary. In these, Ransome celebrated the outdoor activities he loved and the places in England, especially the Lake District, dearest to his heart. The sixth book in the series, Pigeon Post (1936), won the first Carnegie Medal for excellence in children's literature; however, its successor, We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (1937), is widely considered Ransome's masterpiece. (Encyclopaedia Britannica) A complete set of first edition, first impressions of the twelve 'Swallows and Amazons' stories, all in publisher's cloth boards and dust-jackets, London; comprising Swallows and Amazons, 1930, illustrations and map endpapers by Stephen Spurrier, contemporary gift inscription on half title page, leaves generally clean, very good, cloth gilt, slight sunning to spine, more pronounced at head and foot, wraparound pictorial dust-jacket by Steven Spurrier with correct price of 7s 6d intact, small part loss at head of spine, a few nicks, small part losses and small closed tears, a little toning and light spotting but else generally a very nice

• Binding: Hardcover

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